In more than 300 large color photographs, this wide-ranging survey of the new directions in style taken by the designers of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major Chinese centers chronicles a boom in the ...(Read More)

The history of print in America is chronicled here through the typefaces and biographies of 62 influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton, Oswald Bruce Cooper, ...(Read More)

Since its inception in 1876 the Philadelphia Museum of Art has consistently acquired important examples of contemporary design and decorative arts. Curator Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger reveals how ...(Read More)

Born on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Fort Peck, Montana, Margo Grant Walsh is an award-winning interior architect who has amassed a world-class collection of more than 800 exquisitely crafted ...(Read More)

Although Japan has artistically become synonymous with woodblock prints, calligraphy, and cartoons, the nation's 15,000-year tradition of fine ceramics is little known in the West. After a brief ...(Read More)

Illustrated throughout with gorgeous, often surprising works of art in porcelain, this book by internationally renowned craft potter Peter Lane is both a history and celebration of this notoriously ...(Read More)

Apart from having two wheels and a seat, the bicycles in this book have only one thing in common—they've all been customized by experts. Each of this book's 39 chapters profiles a custom shop, with ...(Read More)

We may walk all over them, but the enduring appeal of fine floor coverings goes far beyond simply "tying the room together," and handmade rugs have long been objects of desire. In this unique and ...(Read More)

The contemporary furniture industry of Italy represents a unique collaboration between world-class architects and designers and the manufacturers who risked investing in their innovative creations, ...(Read More)

The dinner plate can be as humble as a wooden trencher—or even a holiday-themed paper plate—yet its central importance in daily life has also attracted the artistic efforts of some of the world's ...(Read More)